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Little Free Library launched in Capiz

It was a beautiful day at the beach when we launched our Little Free Library at Jacque's Coffee and Chills. Friends and family came with books to add to the growing number of books we had collected for the library over a few months.

Do you know of any library located by the sea? The Little Free Library in Roxas City is on Baybay Beach. So come by

take a book,

find a shady nook

and read to your heart's content.

Guests queue up to give a book to the library.

Big thanks to Wee Lucas Conlu for giving the free library a viable venue. One with lots of foot traffic. We are excited to bring this project to Capiz. It is only the second one in the Philippines, after Talisay in Cebu. And many thanks to Christian Francisco Acevedo for hosting the event and for committing resources to the library. We're off to a terrific start!

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." HenryWardBeecher

Update: We have since registered our library with LFL and our Charter number is 56598. We are officially on the LFL world map. See the image below.

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